Drain Cleaning & Sewer Service in Spokane Valley, WA
Spokane Valley didn’t become its own city until 2003, but most of its housing dates back to the 1950s postwar boom. We check the pipe’s actual age and material before recommending anything, not after.
A City That Took Fifty Years to Actually Form
Spokane Valley is its own incorporated city, not a Spokane neighborhood, and its path to becoming one took decades. The idea of incorporating had been discussed since the 1950s, and four separate incorporation measures failed in the 1990s alone before voters finally approved it in May 2002. When incorporation became official on March 31, 2003, it was the largest single-city incorporation in Washington state history and the second-largest in the country at the time, instantly creating a city of roughly 80,700 residents that’s since grown past 108,000.
The area’s history goes back further than that, though. Antoine Plante, a former fur trader, operated a ferry across the Spokane River here starting around 1854, and the valley’s fertile, irrigated land supported orchards and farming through the early 1900s. World War Two brought a large aluminum plant to the Trentwood area, and the postwar population boom that followed replaced most of the remaining orchards with tracts of houses through the 1950s. That’s the era most of Spokane Valley’s residential housing actually comes from.
Why Spokane Valley’s Pipes Are Different
Because Spokane Valley’s major residential growth happened in the postwar 1950s rather than the pre-1940s window that defines a lot of Spokane’s older neighborhoods, the pipe story here leans differently. Orangeburg fiber pipe was the standard, affordable choice for new residential sewer lines through this era, and a meaningful share of Spokane Valley’s original 1950s housing stock is likely still running on it. Add in decades of continued growth since incorporation, meaning newer PVC construction mixed in throughout, and Spokane Valley probably has more pipe-era variation than almost anywhere else we serve.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Spokane Valley part of the city of Spokane?
No. Spokane Valley has been its own separate incorporated city since March 2003. It borders Spokane directly, and the two are often hard to visually distinguish while driving through, but they have separate city governments.
Why does Spokane Valley tend to have Orangeburg pipe instead of older clay tile?
Most of Spokane Valley’s residential growth happened during the postwar 1950s boom, later than the pre-1940s window that produced a lot of clay tile and cast iron elsewhere in Spokane. Orangeburg fiber pipe was the standard choice for new construction during that specific era.
Do you offer same-day service in Spokane Valley?
Yes, same-day appointments are typically available for active clogs and backups in Spokane Valley.
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Serving Spokane Valley, WA
Same-day service, camera inspection before any repair quote.
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